Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boulder-strewn lava plain outside Mexico City, 10,000 workmen, artists and engineers labored last week to finish Mexico's biggest single construction job since the building of the Halls of Montezuma (circa 1500). For the 401-year-old University of Mexico, North America's oldest university,* they were creating a handsome, ultramodern University City, spectacularly expressive of the new, post-revolutionary Mexico. Scheduled for occupancy early next year, the dazzling, $50 million University City is the most up-to-date college campus anywhere...
...opinions about students and about the college newspaper. But to ascribe these opinions to Theodore Morrison is to confuse the fictional character and his world with the character and the world of the artist who created them--a fairly serious critical error. That your reviewer commits this error seems plain. In six consecutive sentences (including the end of paragraph two, all of paragraph three, and the opening of paragraph four), are listed a number of specific attitudes. At the beginning of this sequence, the "he" to whom the attitudes are ascribed is Andrew Aiken...
This screwball Wayne Morse, who was frothing at the mouth re Engine Charlie-where was he while the parade of crackpots, misfits, nincompoops and just plain crooks were operating in Truman's menagerie? Why wasn't he protesting then? ... It would be characters like Morse who would deprive the country of the services of men of real honest-to-goodness ability and integrity...
...announced without a word of warning to Robert A. Taft, the senior Senator from Ohio and the ranking G.O.P. member of the Senate labor committee. These political sins of omission were graphically ascribed to petty resentment against Taft and to deep-dyed political strategy. In fact, they resulted from plain carelessness and lack of Washington experience...
...Amarillo, Texas, Princess Cecilia of Prussia, 35, granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm, renounced her title, took her U.S.-citizenship oath and became plain Mrs. Clyde Harris, wife of an interior decorator and former Army captain whom she married in Germany...